Powder-container



J. D. BOYLE.

POWDER CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, 1920.

1,371,017, Patented Mar. 8, 1921.

\ II'IIIIIIIIIIIIIII'IIIM ave/nice UNITED STATES JOHN D. BOYLE, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

.POWDER-CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. E5921.

Application filed September 13, 1820. Serial No. 409,944.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, Jon Bornn, a subject or the King of Great Britain, a resident of New Rochelle, county ot lVestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Powder-Containers, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relatesto the packagnig of substances in powder form and aims to provide simple form of container trorn which the powder may be expelled in the shape of a cloud.

A particular object is to make it possible to expel the powder in any desired direction and this without the necessity of inclining or turning the box or container upside down.

In a preferred embodiment, the box is made with compressible side walls and is provided with a discharge tube extending from the top of the box down into the mass of powder. This makes it possible, byv

squeezing the sic es of the box, to discharge the powder in any direction irrespective of the position in which the box is held.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part oi this specification, I have illustrated the invention embodied in one of its simplest forms, but wish it understood that the same may be modified in various respects without departure from the true spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter defined and claimed.

In the drawing referred to:

Figure l is a part sectional side elevation of my powder package embodied in conical form.

Fig. 2 is a development of the blank from which the container is made, and Fig. 3 is a detail of a modification.

Referring first to Fig. 2, it will be seen that the-box illustrated is made from a blank of cardboard or other sheet material having divergent wings 5 and 6 connected at their narrower ends at 7 This blank is folded at the point of connection between the two wings and these wings are then rolled and secured to produce the outer and inner tubular members 8 and 9.

A bottom 10 is then secured to the outer wall 8 and as the smaller wing is of lesser length than the outer wing, it produces a tube extending from the top or end ofthe conical container down near the bottom or opposite end thereof.

The container is packed with'the powder usually before the bottom is applied, the discharge outlet 11 at the tip of the con tainer being temporarily closed by a pastor or the like during this filling operation, the poster or other closure being removed when the powder is to be used.

The invention is particularly suited to the packaging and di gensing ot' talcum powder, insect or vermin powder and the like, and forms a relatively inexpensive original pack age for the powc er which can be shipped and handled in the usual way and which when it reaches the consumer, may have the seal broken and then be used to direct tlnpowder wherever required by simply co1npressing the side walls oi? the box. This compression causes the box to operate as a pump or bellows to expel the powder collected in the relatively wide mouth of the conical tube out through the discharge out let in the tip of the box and this operation is possible irrespective of the position of the box. In other words, the powder can be sprayed or directed in the form of a cloud in any direction and without the necessity of inverting or turning the box on its side.

To 'facilitate the bellows action, I have shown the outer wall of the container as made with outstanding resilient protuberances 12 adapted to be gripped in the fingers oi the hand and serving in a bellows capacity in addition to the compressible walls of the box.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the lower end of the discharge tube is conical. as in the first case, but tapers quite sharply just above the mound of powder in the mouth of the tube so as to form a choke at 13 which materially assists in the discharge of the powder. This construction reduces the volume of air in the tube which is discharged in advance of the powder and hence a relatively slight compression of the container is sufiicient to produce the desired powder discharge.

lVhile my invention is particularly well adapted for packaging and dispensing various :Eorms of powder, I wish it understood that it is as well adapted in some respects for handling liquids or materials in other than powder form.

What I claim is: 1

1. A substantially conical powder container having a powder outlet at the tip thereof provided with a. powder collecting ing to the powder outlet.

funnel arranged with its mouth well down' and extendin the contents of the container 'funnel arranged with its mouthwell down in the contents of the container and extend- .ing to the powder outlet, said container having a compressible wall or walls.

3. A substantially conical powder container having an integ 'al discharge tube' introverted within the container from the small end thereof and extending to a point relatively close to thebottom of the container.

4:. A powder container having a single discharg-e outlet and having an integral portion thereof introverted in the form of a tube from said discharge outlet into the body of the container. 7 4

5. A powder container formed. from a blank having oppositely extending divergent wings folded substantially at their point of connection. and both rolled into tubular form, one of said wings being longer than the other to constitute the outer wall of the container and abottom wall connected with said outer wall.

I 6. A dispensing container having'a 09m presslble wall or walls and providedv'ith a l discharge tube extending from near the bottom up and out of the top of the container,

said tube having a portion of increased holding capaelty' at 1ts lower end and standing normally in the mass of material Within the container to thereby collect a supply of the material for discharge purposes.

7. A powder package having compressible side walls and provided with a powder discharge tube extending from near the bottom up through the top of the package, said tube having a relatively wide powder c01- lecting mouth disposed in the mass of powder in the package.

8. A dispensing vessel of the character described, having an outlet at the top thereoi, one wall of said vessel having an integral extension formed into a tube and extending from said outlet to a pointnear the bottom oi. the vessel.

9. ihpowder package comprising a container having a compressible wall or walls, a body of powder within said container and a discharge'tube extending from an outlet in the upper portion of; the box down into 7 the mass of powder therein and l aving relatively wide mouth to receive-the powder in the form of a mound and the walls of said tube being constricted closely above the mound therein.

10. A dispensing vessel: of the character described, having an outlet at theltop there of, one wall "of said vessel. having an integral extension located within the body of the vessel androlled into a tube extending from a point near the bottom of the vessel up to the outlet at the top thereof.

. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of September, 1920. q JOHN nnorLa. 

